israel sounds the alarm over a syrian tank incursion into the golan heights buffer zone residents report exchanges of heavy fire in the area. meanwhile in syria rebel fighters face war crimes allegations after a video of the apparent lynching of pro assad troops surfaces online. and mitt romney and barack obama duke it out for a crucial swing state votes in the last leg of an election campaign critics say bears the hallmarks of a reality t.v. . forum in moscow. thanks very much for spending part of your saturday with us here

on r t our top story israel's filed a complaint at the u.n. after three syrian tanks entered the de-militarized zone between the two countries breaching a decades old cease fire more details from artie's middle east correspondent paul sr. what we're hearing from the israeli defense establishment is that they do believe that this syrian tank movement is linked to infighting in syria and is not an act of aggression against the state of israel she having said that though the i.d.f. has been on the lookout for precisely this kind of development for several months now it has since the syrian inciting approached the israeli border the i.d.f. has filed a complaint with the united nations over the ceasefire violation and at the same time it has raised its alert in the north of the concrete what it is now waiting for is for the united nations disengagement force to oversee the withdrawal of these tanks that into this demilitarized zone in the central golan heights at the

same time we understand that the tanks were taking part in battles between syrian rebels when it was since the nine hundred sixty seven six day war the whole issue of the golan heights has remained a bone of contention between israel and syria is one essentially occupied the area back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and is very reluctant to give it back to syria notchy because it allows it to protect its women's below the golan heights and also the areas around the sea of galilee having said that though the issue has always been the main stumbling point between any current of peace talks between israel and syria and has always stood in the way of we need kind of compromise between these two countries inside syria the army's reportedly repelled a rebel offensive on a key military base in the northwest and the titling militia said to be fighting alongside the opposition to gain control of the facility also the un is examining a video it suspects could be evidence of war crimes by syrian rebels the newly

released footage purportedly shows opposition fighters executing captured government troops ten soldiers were beaten and lined up on the ground before being shot with automatic rifles investigative journalist james corbett thinks it's a rare example of the opposition tactics coming under international scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous stock human coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that did note some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway

through the article time and time again so it is of course and if the hypocrisy that's underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the floors and on the side of these rebel forces the only real plan that's on the table that right now that's feasible is the one that china just put forth the four point proposal for the syrian troops which also does not include any language for assad to step down it does not in court include any enforcement language which is a political nonstarter in washington because of course those are the two key issues that they want to make sure is part of any type of proposal so once again we see that that washington is really absolutely keen to make sure that assad stepping down as part of any proposal and i think they're not going to accept anything short of that so i think they are content to watch these atrocities and and these murders and executions and torture pile up in the name of trying to get rid of assad and unfortunately the only real peace plan on the table at the moment isn't even being considered seriously by washington partners of peaceful protesters in bahrain have

come under attack from riot police firing tear gas they were rallying against the recently imposed ban on public gatherings seen as part of the government's crackdown on reform campaigns a prominent activist has been jailed to six months for posting a tweet said to insult the king column cavell a former lecturer at the university of bahrain thinks they'll be no peace until the monarchy leaves. to jail someone for voicing their opinion. of expression violated any standards of democracy around the world there is no improvement at all except that the regime is learning to play the world media like oh no they claim they support human rights they claim instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes are just rosy and meanwhile they can do any of the crackdown they continue the torture and they continue to do

and they continue the killings in bahrain and we do already overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the population. or out of the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty years mostly they must have the other was there will be no social feeds in bahrain and the situation will continue to get more chaotic with just three days to go until election day in the united states both mitt romney and barack obama have kicked their election campaigns into high gear racing from rally to rally both working to break their stalemate in the latest polls something neither the debates nor the recent hurricane have been able to do he was artie's honest on the home stretch. the blame game in full swing why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing finger pointing p did make it worse mocking he even called it marvelous which

is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget a tax this president's a lightweight we've all agreed that families are off limits. dogs are apparently fair game what you're seeing is them finally rising up to the level of professional wrestling and i say rising up to it. because in pro wrestling in front of the cameras we all hate each other behind the scenes it's a business. and that's the same way it is for them it's a sham a sham largely compared to reality television survivor style started out eliminating contestants on the island and then event they have to form alliances you can call those parties and then they finally in the grand. you have two three five years to go head to head and they end it here it gets the big just the big prize the big prize for years to run the united states of america the

contestants are giving it their all to win the competition the concept of a reality show we all know is supposed to be some kind of reality but but in reality it's just really made for t.v. and the presidential campaigns in the us are completely made for t.v. like in any major production a huge crew and big box run the game they have people determine what a guy's going to wear what kind of haircut how much makeup you know some of these opportunities for a lot of people to get rich from looks to comment since most of the election campaign is scripted. the mainstream media following the presidential campaigns eats the show right up one example i'm going to stop the subsidy to p.b.s. i'm going to stop other things i like p.b.s. i love big bird the debate the u.s. presidential debate as well as that on the yes week a million that makes it the most successful most popular reality show. while fact checking leave the building. in about is track record about.

when you're in yet most of the coverage. i see. you spreading a giant welcome mat for trivialized news coverage is romney hurting obama's feelings and so barmah hurting his feelings are they being cordial to each other or are they being angry look at the way obama looks up and looks down the show must go on until the curtains are drawn presidential candidates putting on a performance to be voted into the white house a superficial media paying little attention to the actual words being said and not demanding to hear the words that should matter as the u.s. election enters its closing act and look to team and remains king and politics not much more than a circus and if they see it you're going to r.t. new york one aspect of the race that neither candidate is touched on much is the u.s.

military's missions abroad both contenders promise less war and more safety and security u.s. national defense expert gareth porter says he has doubts. throughout the campaign and outside the context of the campaign you simply do not have a lively debate in the united states over this extreme degree of military spending and the militarism that goes with it i'm sorry to say that i don't believe. obama will deliver on his campaign promise specifically to and u.s. involvement in the war in afghanistan i mean that is certainly the impression that he's conveyed to the american people and that was conveyed to the american people by the vice presidential candidate joe biden i think the closest romney and his running mate paul ryan have come to making a promise is perhaps the the idea that they would somehow be more successful in putting pressure on iran to end its nuclear program but i must say that it was not

made with much conviction and vet i think is a measure of just how in your the u.s. public and the political system have become to militarism and empire for the united states well hurricane standy may not sandy may not be the only store in the u.s. could face. i think mitt romney is that much bigger a natural disaster than hurricane sandy some american voters sound off on the superstorm and tuesday's vote that's coming up plus. we're seeing a disease a liver on a label put you off calorie packs snacks in a couple of minutes the backlash over any medics who want to put your into after a short break.

enough to write. course you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a force on the island of a horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horses were there sometimes he gets lonely here but horses have become part of me no i've fallen off so many times sometimes. it's part of my everyday life. i holmes been home to a rat like me just laugh for centuries most still live off the land cattle and fish . if my call is often called the pearl of siberia i know i said to be

the pearl of by. it's all end of think forests. and vast staps. virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i was cornish quickly become a magnet for nature lovers and the real seekers you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very basic so you can forget about a t.v. or even run in water for most people a tent is there on the eruption but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for. a journey to buy coal can be unique a trip of a lifetime and the locals say once you've seen it they'll be coming back again again and

. of the six america votes for its next president. of. the us drives into the future. get the news the mainstream is a close election. up close. and. you think you understand it and then. you hear. and realize everything. is a big picture. fifteen

minutes past the hour now despite the devastation hurricane sandy araud across the northeastern u.s. is proving to be something of a political opportunity for the two main candidates both rush to offer his sympathies any each found ways to criticize the other over it. is a bit out onto the streets of new york to gauge which candidate weathered it best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan sixty floor and i seen every day that would just be water. water everywhere was industry do you think the government has handled the storm well no

how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think that they have anything to do with how much water is down there and no i think they're just really slow to respond to the whole thing with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to have three people in a car i used to going to vote on tuesday. that no then. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls still stand i have to be there. reacted to it it seems to be going. to be. able to pull their lives together yes so do you think that obama's looking better than romney right now. i think mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster than hurricane sandy and i hope people realize that vote for obama you don't think there's anything wrong with obama i think there's

plenty wrong in terms of his. foreign policy in the mideast but unfortunately he's the lesser evil the bottom line is this has been a tough time for new york city and most of us are looking forward to putting this hurricane and the election behind us. artie's the channel giving american voters a different perspective every day in the fall choice of white house hopefuls to pick from on monday it's the final debate between third party candidates live from our d.c. studio. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power alone. plus if america changes. to its election close god monday november fifth one or two. doctors in canada have come out with a very explicit warning about their health risks of obesity but critics say the

alarming labels will unfairly and accurately equate everyday meals and drinks with the more harmful effects of alcohol and tobacco tom barton explains. imagine you're about to bite into your pizza when you see this disease liver or perhaps you're taking a swig of your drink when this diseased foot catches your eye put off your food well that's just the effect some doctors in canada want frustrated with the growing epidemic of obesity the on tare own medical association have taken a leaf from their anti smoking contemporary's book and called for graphic labeling on fatty sugary and salty processed foods they say society must stop tiptoeing around health risks such as diabetes heart and liver disease which can arise from eating too much of certain foods but what we want to do is we want to tax foods that are high in calories in the nutritional value and get tax breaks the healthy food but as you might imagine the shock food tactics have been hard to swallow for

those who make or enjoy eating but targeted products they think the labels are over the top and accuse doctors of demonizing certain products and food categories hearing bacco every day beverage items nonsensical smoking tobacco products do not really have a balance in a healthy place that various food and beverage products which the ontario medical association would place label warnings on i can absolutely heart of a balance other proposals that have sparked controversy include labeling excessive salt sugar and fat as pathogens that is disease causing viruses and bacteria age limits for buying soft drinks and temporarily taking some obese children away from their parents william endl author of seeds of destruction says the doctors are right about the dangers of highly processed foods but that these labels will simply

be ignored i don't know any single cigarette smoker. their cigarettes will make. their blithely thought i don't think that stuff. the body the foods are engineer today in the private lab the borders of foods are engineers today in many cases to be addicted to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain so until you forced by law to change that kind of those who can't then you're not going to have any solution to this my mother theo and they also recommends higher taxes and marketing restrictions on junk food especially to children to to stick suggest twenty six percent of canadian children aged five to seventeen are overweight or obese. gazing up at the international space station from your own backyard now possible in the last old launches a new text message service notifying users when the station is a visible from the earth find out more at our dot com was. an elephant in south

korea proves a trunk is no obstacle to talking head on to our web site for this story and. while big pharmaceutical companies spend a fortune developing medicines to cure the world's diseases their products are often affordable to people in developing countries in india though one lab is working on a vaccine that could save thousands and cost just a dollar artie's preassure to has more. this is india's genome valley inside these quiet sterile labs there's a revolution taking place that could change the world's approach to public health and potentially save the lives of one hundred thousand indian children every year bharath biotech is an indian firm developing a one dollar vaccine against rotavirus

a disease which causes diarrhea in infants and is deadly in the developing world i think also like a new generation of diplomats like us ok money making is also important but then solving the life saving the sea life for two hundred thousand soldiers also but a critical a new study shows india is leading the way in treating people in remote areas in battling diseases which are shunned by the big pharmaceutical companies because immunizations in the developed world have all but obliterated them dr krishna ella believes the big pharma companies haven't really dived into creating products for developing markets because they haven't had the financial incentive and that's why i like many of his fellow indian entrepreneurs he decided to look into it. selves there was a lot of the focus of this sort of our shareholders are going to define what it was about you you'll be in research for one billion dollars on the product i mean if i put all the sales because there's nothing going. on with the i'm not going to be more focused on the negative pieces because it's not

a global importance india's leap into innovating for the under-served began when the country began complying with the global intellectual property law it forced them to stop making only cheap copies of existing drugs and branch out instead into new research and development creating vaccines isn't the only way to bow out on the collective diseases diagnostic tests are also key to identifying what the problem is this fabric chip is being developed here in a chair a lab in bangalore the idea is with just one drop of blood on the spot for me you could diagnose at home or in a doctor's office potentially reaching millions of people in this country who don't have access to proper health care dr done jiah done the koori the brains behind the fabric chip believes that other more profit driven companies will start to take an interest once they realize just how big this market really is a volume going to play just like ships or the ones there's like millions or billions of this being sold i wonder how she'd be trying is that people who get

interested in maybe the price point something like a lot of money to do in the west at some number that starts making sense and to report into india's growing r. and d. capabilities says the country might not need the big power players to make an impact in india has that it was a man and to be able to do these sorts of things and focus on it is that important to this country and other developing countries taking matters into their own hands to save the lives of their countries people and not waiting for the big profit driven pharmaceutical companies to make the first play preassure either r t bangalore india. and coming up a closer look at the roots of the occupy movement after a short break stay with us. if you are passing through russia's region you really can call the wild side.

thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land and enterprising locals so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road. such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunt is going on he has been hunting for more than thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu of. things a successful. site would be very quiet right in the. office. but when you've been in the business as long as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to

survive but environmentalists are fighting back the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs are tags taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island

a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here using the old walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication i mean the will soil and remains a place where the visitors can truly understand the cool of the wild.

and i work for. my father is the way and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of seed anyway district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents the rising workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different the rising is trying to break everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime so many diverse people who are many walks of life that recognize that we are the ninety nine percent of the time of record profits of ricers us to the very same people that have made a lucrative and a rich corporation that they now want to you will benefit by acceptable form up they want to see you there i said it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make as much as china do to us and everybody else had

to buy say about saving a million dollars next year what do you think that this car negotiations is really about this car negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is cooperation is trying to get what they want that they've been trying to get for the last twenty five years and we cannot let them and that's why i get by wall street's message and on message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country and we cannot let it so we have very close ties with the communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the fall markets and responded by supporting us we went to their last rally at headquarters they marched back to the park with. and some of them slept there they're going to be in a tough struggle that's why we're getting this relationship with labor labor sees is relieved they are i never expected when i first started contacting unions that the response would be so enthusiastic but the labor movement has been kicked around now.